From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8LzD-0002xq-Lm for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:57:28 +0200 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8R0q1As013120 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-5.local (128.224.18.66) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:52:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4E811E28.1020106@windriver.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:51:52 -0400 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <1316955346-12756-1-git-send-email-julian.pidancet@gmail.com> <4E810D02.6080101@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use useradd and update-rc.d classes in the OpenSSH recipe X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:57:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/26/11 8:47 PM, Julian Pidancet wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Julian Pidancet > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Saul Wold wrote: >>> >>> Is there a reason you did not include the group and --disable-password here? >>> >>> I think it would be good to leave thelong name options in also. >>> >>> Sau! >>> >> >> The -U option creates a group with the same name. The >> --disable-password option only exists with adduser and is default with >> useradd -r. >> I'd just like to point out that adduser is originally a perl script >> from debian and reimplemented in busybox. The options it takes are not >> compatible with the more standard useradd from the shadow package. >> >> For some reason, some long options like --system (which is supposed to >> be supported in useradd) did not work during my first >> experimentations, but I will investigate and respin a patch with long >> options if possible. >> >> Also, I discovered that the following recipes still depends on adduser: >> ppp-dialin, avahi, distcc, xserver-nodm-init, pulseaudio, hal, dbus >> >> It would be good to use the useradd class with all of them. >> > > In the shadow-sysroot package that we build to be able to use the > useradd class, we apply the add_root_cmd_options.patch to add the > --root option to useradd. > > The --root option allows useradd to chroot somewhere so it can modify > /etc/passwd, but at the same time, it disables all the other long > options in the program. > > It looks like it is impossible to use long options with the useradd > class. I don't know how straighforward it would be to modify this > patch to get the long options back. But is it worth the pain ? > If the long options got disabled due to the path, it's a bug. (File a bug on bugzilla.yoctoproject.org and someone will look at it.. or submit a patch...) --Mark